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The afterlife is letting go

"A memoiristic travelogue that illuminates the enduring legacy of the mass incarceration of Japanese immigrants and Japanese Americans during World War II"--

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Shimoda, Brandon (Author)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	San Francisco : City Lights Books, [2024]
Subjects:	Japanese Americans. Shimoda, Brandon > Family. Japanese Americans > Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945 > Influence. Collective memory > United States. World War, 1939-1945 > Japanese Americans. World War, 1939-1945 > Concentration camps > United States > Influence.
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Summary:	"A memoiristic travelogue that illuminates the enduring legacy of the mass incarceration of Japanese immigrants and Japanese Americans during World War II"--
Physical Description:	258 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:	9780872869295 0872869296
Author Notes:	Brandon Shimoda is a 2020 Whiting Fellow, and the author of several books of poetry and prose, including Hydra Medusa (Nightboat Books, 2023), The Grave on the Wall (City Lights, 2019), which received the PEN Open Book Award, and Evening Oracle (Letter Machine Editions, 2015), which received the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. He is also the co-editor of To look at the sea is to become what one is: An Etel Adnan Reader (Nightboat Books, 2014) and an anthology of poetry on WWII Nikkei incarceration (forthcoming from Haymarket Books in 2025). He currently lives in Colorado Springs and teaches at Colorado College.